dr hab. inż. Krzysztof Fic

Krzysztof Fic graduated in Chemical Process Engineering at the Faculty of Chemical Technology, Poznan University of Technology, in June 2008; at the same time, he was accepted for the research assistant position in the Department of Applied Electrochemistry and he works there until now. In 2012 he defended his PhD thesis (supervisor: prof. Elzbieta Frackowiak) and in 2020 he was awarded with habilitation degree – both in chemical sciences discipline.

His research activities focus mainly on the electrochemical systems for the energy conversion and storage; in particular, he is interested in phenomena occurring at the porous electrode/electrolyte interface in so-called operando approach. Besides, he investigates the electrochemical activity of selected redox couples and their application as a novel source of pseudocapacitance of carbon-based electrochemical capacitors.

In April 2011, he visited the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherche sur la Matière Divisée, Orléans (France). In October 2011, he took a research internship at Heyrovsky Institute in Prague. In 2013 – 2015 he spent six months in Solvay company (Brussels, Belgium) within IAPP Marie Curie Action.

In October 2014, he was honoured by Ministry of Science and Higher Education receiving the stipend for outstanding young scientists, recognized as the noblest award for starting-career researchers.

In July 2015 he was selected by French Embassy in Warsaw for a one-month research stay in France as an award for his scientific achievements; then, in February 2016, he visited the Institut de Science des Matériaux de Mulhouse.

Recently, he is a principal investigator in the Starting Grant (GA 759603) funded by European Research Council.

In 2009-2020, he presented nearly 50 oral communications and 14 posters during national and international conferences, in Europe, U.S., Mexico, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Australia. A number of oral communications and posters he has co-authored is even greater.

Since December 2016 he serves as a Member of Polish Young Academy at Polish Academy of Sciences.

On 1^st August 2019 he was appointed as ‘Specially Appointed Professor’ at Kansai University in Japan.

He is co-author of more than 50 peer-review papers, cited more than 2 000 times. He co-invented more than 20 patents already granted and 30 patent applications pending.

Detailed information might be found at his personal website.